Air Traffic Control

Nine air traffic control towers will be replaced or updated.

What factors determine tower installation at a particular location?

A series of simulations focused on potential operations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, using tools and procedures already available to air traffic controllers.

The FAA says it is taking immediate action to improve air traffic controller training and safety reporting in response to a recently released National Airspace System Safety Review Team report.

Landmark document details early air taxi operations, certification, infrastructure, environmental concerns, and more.

Routinely talking with controllers makes flying safer, more efficient, and less stressful.

The GPS disruptions prompted at least one Lithuanian carrier to cancel flights for at least three days, according to Finnish transportation officials.

Alaska Airlines and Airspace Intelligence have signed a multi-year contract for a “first-of-its-kind partnership to optimize air traffic flow using artificial intelligence and machine learning.” In a news release, Alaska Airlines said the partnership will use, “Flyways AI … that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to assist dispatchers in making flight operations more […]

On May 23, 2021, a scheduled Ryanair flight from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania, was diverted as it transitioned the airspace over Belarus, and instructed to land at Minsk. Belarus’ air traffic control informed the pilots of a bomb threat—the purported reason for the diversion, though the flight was quite near its destination already—yet once […]

The Canadian Air Traffic Control Association (CATCA), the union representing all Canadian air traffic controllers in the country, recently raised serious public safety concerns that could result from the anticipated control tower closures and service reductions being suggested in an ongoing NAV Canada system review. CATCA said in a news release, “Despite prior assurances from […]